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Josh Torres Wedding

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STL. history teacher, SLPS. public school advocate. Percussionist. Into weird music, veg/native gardening, & pro-bike/anti-car agitprop. RIP Twitter—yet another beautiful thing ruined by a billionaire https://canapostrophet.bandcamp.com/album/cant

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 4d

My band CAN'T formed last year, and wrote and recorded an album in a DIY studio in my basement, 99% live.

Instrumental music that is experimental at times, so not for everyone...but maybe for you?

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CAN'T, by CAN'T

12 track album

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes referred to as the “beautiful people” (derogatory) Schnucks. Lots of people from Clayton and WUSTL

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 4d

Marian Wilson Kimber: It’s painful to realize the people in charge of Iowa’s history apparently have no idea how history works. If they did, they'd know there is no way to predict what parts of the collection will be of interest 5, 20, or 100 years from now. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/10/t...

The theft of history

Marian Wilson Kimber: I have wondered if the box of women’s club programs that changed my life will end up in the dumpster.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 2d

Sound familiar?

Arundhati Roy
on ethnonationalism in India 2018

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 3d

Aside from Amazon web services, it is surprisingly easy to boycott Amazon. I often find it takes me to funkier vendors & its not hard to find similar prices. If you want some more reasons to cut it out of your life read my essay "Corporate Cannibalism at the Inception of America"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 4d

CAN'T, by CAN'T

12 track album

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 5d

Tonight!

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 8d

Greta Thunberg spoke publicly for the first time since reports emerged that she was mistreated while in an Israeli prison.

The activist arrived in Greece alongside other members of the Global Sumud Flotilla after they were deported from Israel.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 9d

"Klein’s musings about redrawing the line are, more importantly, a manifestation of a pervasive tendency in American elite circles to accommodate rather than fight back, to acquiesce rather than stand firm," says @thomaszimmer.bsky.social. Excellent piece. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...

Where Is the Line?

On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America

democracyamericana.com

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 10d

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A Journey Into the Mind of Watts

www.pynchon.pomona.edu

Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 10d

Since people are talking about Pynchon, his ‘66 essay on Watts is a really interesting time capsule

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 10d

Was a joy to finally see Bill Frisell live after listening to him for almost three decades

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 11d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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State of St. Louis @stateofstlouis.bsky.social · 11d

Old enough to remember when ward reduction, nonpartisan elections, big salary hikes, and personal full time staff were going to bring St. Louis City a more professional Board of Alders

$72,000 each a year for this nonsense

Steph Kukuljan @stephkukuljan.bsky.social · 11d

Voters approved a new tax on Airbnb-style rentals, but #STL officials didn't pass a bill authorizing collection.

Aldermen said they weren't told. City counselor's office said they were.

“There seems to be a lot of confusion about who is responsible for what.”
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